Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.M.H.M., M.G.); Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology/Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands (R.M.H.M., M.G.); VIB, Department of Plant Systems Biology (R.M.H.M., D.I., G.T.S.B.), and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics (R.M.H.M., D.I., G.T.S.B.), Ghent University, 9052 Gh...

The development of microfabricated devices that will provide high-throughput quantitative data and high resolution in a fast, repeatable and reproducible manner is essential for plant biology research. Plants have been intensely explored since the beginning of humanity, especially for medical needs. However, plant biology research is still laborious, lacking the latest technological advancement...

BACKGROUND Although the issue of anthropogenic climate forcing and public health is widely recognized, one fundamental aspect has remained underappreciated: the impact of climatic change on plant biology and the well-being of human systems. OBJECTIVES We aimed to critically evaluate the extant and probable links between plant function and human health, drawing on the pertinent literature. D...

Samuel Bocobza, Lothar Willmitzer, Natasha V. Raikhel & Asaph Aharoni Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, Center for Plant Cell Biology and Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riversid...

Fire is one of the incorporate vegetation management practices for grasslands and semi-arid rangelands. It may affect symbiotic relationship between range plants and mycorrhiza. Accordingly, this research was aimed to investigate the effects of a spring prescribed fire on the symbiotic relationships between mycorrhiza and 6 plant species. The study was conducted in a semi-arid steppe rangeland ...

1 Department of Molecular Plant Genetics, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologı́a CSIC, Madrid, Spain and 2 Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium * Corresponding author. Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 927, Gent 9052, Belgium. Tel.: þ 32 9331 3914; Fax: þ 32 9331 3809 E-mail: [email protected]...

the plant-pathogen interaction is a multifactor process that may lead to resistance or susceptible responses of plant to pathogens. during the arms race between plant and pathogens, various biochemical, molecular and physiological events are triggered in plant cells such as ros signaling, hormone activation and gene expression reprogramming. in plants, micrornas (mirnas) are key post-transcript...

Plant biology has grown from its origins in botany to become an increasingly molecular science. Chemical biology, in turn, is evolving from its chemical roots to explore biological systems of greater complexity. Each discipline offers concepts and tools that will benefit the other, and we urge enhanced future collaboration between these two communities. To encourage the conversation, this issue...

One con evolution Evolutionary context for understanding and manipulating plant responses to past, present and future atmospheric [CO2] Andrew D. B. Leakey1,* and Jennifer A. Lau2 Department of Plant Biology and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1201 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA W. K. Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Plant Biology, M...